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"Rahul Pandita was fourteen years old when he was forced to leave his home in Srinagar along with his family. They were Kashmiri Pandits- the Hindu minority within a Muslim-majority Kashmir that was by 1990 becoming increasingly agitated with the cries of ‘Azaadi’ from India. Our Moon Has Blood Clots is the story of Kashmir, in which hundreds of thousands of Kashmiri Pandits were tortured, killed and forced to leave their homes by Islamist militants, and to spend the rest of their lives in exile in their own country. Rahul Pandita has written a deeply personal, powerful and unforgettable story of history, home and loss."

Description for Our Moon Has Blood Clots: A Memoir of a Lost Home in Kashmir

About the Author

"Rahul Pandita is a journalist and an author based in Delhi. He is a 2015 Yale World Fellow. He has also authored the best-selling Hello, Bastar: The Untold Story of India’s Maoist Movement, and co-authored the critically-acclaimed The Absent State. He has extensively reported from war zones that include Iraq and Sri Lanka. In 2010, he received the International Red Cross award for conflict reporting. Rahul has been a speaker at international forums like the Carnegie Endowment Center, Stanford University, Brown University, State University of New York, Michigan University, and the World Affairs Council. In Fall 2014, he was a visiting fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for the Advanced Study of India (CASI). Rahul’s last job was as Editor (Opinion and Special Stories) of the national English daily, The Hindu. "

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Top customer reviews

Just completed reading 'Our Moon Has Blood Clots" by Rahul Pandita. Deeply engrossing. The book details the plight of Kashmir Pandits, who are refugees in their own country. Sickening to learn that how the majority Muslims were only eager in, and accelerated the exodus of the minority Pandit community from the valley. Hindus don't have minority rights in Muslim majority areas. Hindus cannot think of religious freedom in a non-hindu state. Human rights are only a joke for minority Hindus. We haven't learned the lessons yet. It is high time to discuss and decide who our minorities are, as Kashmir spillover is going to spiral to other parts of the country in distant future.

A must read for all those who have made their own opinion about Kashmir from news channels. This book shows the REAL Kashmir threadbare! This is the stark naked truth about life (hellish for hindus) in Kaashmir. Spend some time with this book and you will realize who are the real 'victims' in Kashmir. I got goosebumps reading some parts of this book , especially when the kashmiri pundit families hiding inside their own homes hear the muslim youth talking outside their homes about who will capture whose home and how they will have fun with the pundit ladies! Too horrible to even imagine!

This is a moving account of silent exodus of Pandits from their homeland, which didn't get the desired attention of the rest of the country and the media and which remained a victim of politics of the country.Descriptions are graphic and heart-rending but, to the credit of the writer, the incidents have been narrated with a subtle restrained in the manner which make you feel the pain of the Pandits and the pathetic role of the Govt machinery which terribly failed to tackle the situation. Today when issue of resettlement of Pandits in Kashmir is gaining voice again, it is necessary to look for Answers to the questions raised by Rahul Pandits that whether the Kashmiri Pandits are no one's people...!!!

The book is a great insight to the lives of Kashmiri Pandits who fled the valley following the 1990 pogrom to force a demographic change in the valley. While we Indians rightfully tend to take the anti Muslim riots very seriously, we haven't paid due attention to anti Pandit attitude of Kashmiri Muslims. It's about time to make movies on Pandits, to write books about their struggles and to pay heed to their plight. Let's give them the attention they both need and deserve. This book rightfully does that!

Having lived in Jammu at the time and being a teenager myself, it was quite surprising to see all those strange people in our schools. They were good looking and intelligent and iI wondered why I never saw them earlier.The books's narrative is nicely paced and touching and it answers many questions I had. It is very heartening to read about all the hardships they went through and are still not done. Every single time Kashmir is mentioned in news, no one really cares about Pandit. Rahul does a great job in portraying Pandit's plight through personal stories and actual incidents.Every Kashmiri Pandit should read this.

THIS IS THE BOOK THAT EVERY INDIAN SHOULD READ. AFTER READING THIS BOOK FELT GUILTY THAT WE DID NOT HELP TO THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE THE REAL OWNER OF KASHMIR THE LAND OF GOD. HISTORY OF HINDU STARTS FROM HIMALAYA AND WE STILL NOT DOING ANYTHING FOR THOSE PANDITS... ITS SHAME FUL.

Rahul PANDITA has done a phenomenal job writing this book . He make you tell his story from his personal experience as well as well as with detailed records and facts . He will tell you about how pandit community had graced Kashmir since centuries and how they have been religiously persecuted since centuries . Do read for the details he puts in while describing incidents . I want to tell I had to stop frequently while reading it and had to ponder over it . You will feel that you are experiencing his emotions and feelings what he experienced that time . And not to forget fabulous Ending of the book ( brought tears ). It tell the the tales of patience KPs had then and have now .Respect for them . :)

The book indeed captures the painful account of his family during the 1990 turmoil in Kashmir and that of his maternal uncle during the 1947 Pakhtoon invasion. Both these account are about the most ignored side of any war, riot, or uprising - the fate of people who get uprooted from their homes and become 'refugees' in their own country. I guess though author has given blow by blow account, one must not take this as pointing fingers. The atrocities were committed ever since 1947 (or even before) on Kashmiris irrespective of their religion. The equation is not simple at all.

Having said that, one must not read this book in isolation and form their impression or take a position on the Kashmir conflict.